Getting Girls to Think Politics

Campaigns & ElectionsVol. 29 Nbr. 1, January 2008

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Last year, the team behind Women Under Forty Political Action Campaign (WUFPAC), a bipartisan group that works to get young women elected to federal office, began Running Start, a non-profit with the goal of engaging high school girls in the political process. Initiatives like these fill an important gap in encouraging political activism, explains Debbie Walsh, director of Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics.

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Getting Girls to Think Politics

She can't vote yet, but Natasha Dupree, 17, already thinks politics-thanks, in part, to Running Start. Last year, the team behind Women Under Forty Political Action Campai...

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